no thank you, Fortune is a liberal magazine which I thought was own by Gannett at one time.
There are enough reasons on the issues not to support Carly.
As CEO she had a Board of Directors that supported her every step of the way. Until it was clear someone had to take the fall. As is always the case, the business press is as full of BS as any other media outlet.
Very belated Monday-morning quarterbacking. The errors made by Ms. Fiorina are not more egregious or emotion-based than those of countless males in a similar corporate setting, and last I heard, Hewlett-Packard is still doing just fine as a corporation. Could she have done better on some of the pivot points? Hindsight is truly a great analytical tool, but unavailable to those of us who do not have a time machine to jump weeks or months into the future and return.
Far as I know, Doc Brown never DID invent the Flux Capacitor, or even the nuclear power conversion unit to generate 1.21 jigawatts of power. And we don’t have flying cars, either.
I know who she looks like!!
You put her hair up and she’s Lucy from Despicable Me 2
Carly Fiorina on Immigration: Pass the DREAM Act. For other undocumented immigrants, a direct path to citizenship is unfair. While running for the U.S. Senate in California in 2010, Fiorina said she supports the DREAM Act, which would give legal status to people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Carly Fiorina on Climate change: It is real and manmade. But government has limited ability to address it. Speaking in New Hampshire in February, Fiorina said there is scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.
Carly Fiorina on Education: Supports Common Core – Set national standards but give local districts maximum control. No Child Left Behind was positive. In a position paper while running for the U.S. Senate in California, Fiorina
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Also worth mentioning:
In her interview with Katie Couric from May, Carly Fiorina went on and on about how if you don’t have a room full of “diversity” when making an important decision, you will not get the decision right. (ff 9:43 - 13:00)
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GOP Hopeful Slams Hillary For Clinton Foundation, But Left One Important Thing Out
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And last but not least...regarding the Fiorina's quote "Islamic Civilization was “Greatest in the World”:
"I’ll end by telling a story.There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.
It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.
One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization’s commerce extended from Latin America to China, and everywhere in between.
And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.
Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.
When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.
While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.
Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.
And perhaps we can learn a lesson from his example: It was leadership based on meritocracy, not inheritance. It was leadership that harnessed the full capabilities of a very diverse population — that included Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish traditions.
This kind of enlightened leadership — leadership that nurtured culture, sustainability, diversity and courage — led to 800 years of invention and prosperity.
In dark and serious times like this, we must affirm our commitment to building societies and institutions that aspire to this kind of greatness. More than ever, we must focus on the importance of leadership — bold acts of leadership and decidedly personal acts of leadership.
With that, I’d like to open up the conversation and see what we, collectively, believe about the role of leadership."
There is so much wrong in that quote. Fiorina majored in medieval history at Stanford at time (one assumes) during which Edward Said’s discredited, anti-Western ideology on colonialism and “Orientalism” flowed within MESA Nostra intellectual/university circles. With 14 years having passed since that speech, Fiorina should revisit the topic and clarify.
When one hears the phrase "golden age of Islam", the idiom, "all that glitters is not gold" immediately pops up.
Bill Warner illustrates in 70 seconds Islam's destruction of Classical Civilization over 12 hundred years here, ff 12:14 and reveals there were three, not one, but THREE Dark Ages brought on by Islam, one in Europe, one in Turkey (Byzantine) and North Africa. (ff 24:27).
Then fast forward once more to 31:50 where Mr. Warner specifically addresses the so called 'golden age' of al Andalus (Spain) and asks, was it a "multicultural golden age" or a 'reign of terror'? His brilliant illustration answers that question leaving no doubt.
Bet she’d Absolutely destroy EPA or Department of Education. :×)
The media cracks me up with thier righteous explanations of what should be looked into and when. We still know next to nothing of Barack H. Obama. The man with no accomplishments except two self serving autobiographies of a 40-something with no accomplishments.
If I were running for president, I would be ready for them and fry thier asses good with a tirade of “I’ll answer that as soon as soon as you ask Barck Obama about -fill in the blank-
They have given up the right to investigate anybodies background and I would make sure they knew it.
Oh On the topic above..Carly is OK for me..not on my top list but I would not cry if she won the nomination. I would support and vote for her.
This guy is a school teacher who has no experience in business and writes for the Huffington Post.
My old boss worked at HP during Carly’s reign. He is an extremely conservative man politically and socially and has categorically stated that he would never vote for Fiorina due to her lack of true leadership skill. She does give a good speech and I give her credit for embracing Christianity since her days at HP, but that does not make her a good leader.
That includes *her*.
Carly Fiorina laid groundwork for HP's success
Interesting article from August 2000 – worth a read:
At Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina Combines Discipline, New-Age Talk
My understanding is that HP at the time she took over, it was a lumbering behemoth and with a deeply entrenched culture (the “H-P Way”), or as what I’ve encountered at some companies I’ve worked for when looking to improve efficiencies or solve problems and asking “so why do you do it that way? – and the answer was always “I don’t know why, but that’s just the way we’ve always done things”, one that was not keeping up with rapid changes in the industry and “had splintered into 83 autonomous businesses that had no overarching strategy.”
“Some executives fretted that managers wouldn't wield "real" authority if they couldn't control both product development and marketing."It took some of the glory, if you wish, out of the job," says Mr. Perez, the departed executive.” Product development and marketing have to work closely together but product engineers are not necessarily good at marketing (or sales). “Consternation rippled through the ranks. Managers who had long aspired to run their own autonomous units, known as P&Ls, short for profit & loss, suddenly saw most of those jobs disappear.”
“Most of the units exercised nearly total authority over their budgets, often to the detriment of broader goals.”
Managers were in other words, IMO, running their own autonomous “fiefdoms”; the overall strategy or health of the company or the overall customer experience be damned.
That and all the numerous divisions did not interact with each other or with their customers – “Frustrated customers had long complained that large purchases required them to deal separately with several H-P divisions. So Ms. Fiorina tapped Ann Livermore, who previously ran the server-computer division, to consolidate dealings with the company's top 100 customers.” And that strategy resulted in a very lucrative long term deal with Amazon.com.
“She tore up the company's profit-sharing program in favor of a strict performance-based bonus system.” And I’m sure that pissed a lot of old timers off. I’ve seen this shift happen a few years ago at the company where I currently work. Many people had been accustomed to getting annual increases and bonuses based on the company’s overall performance regardless of their individual performance or their business unit’s performance. It was a big wake up call to some in management and in some business units, who had been coasting and reaping the benefits of other’s success.
Perhaps in hindsight the Compac merger didn’t bring the results that either she or the HP BOD’s wanted, but Carly was specifically hired at HP to “shake things up” and to consolidate all the various and autonomous business units and to position HP to be more competitive in a rapidly changing market and in that, IMO, she succeeded.
And we continue forming the circular firing squad. . .NO candidate is good enough to someone. . so, those someone’s grab their vote and go home.
At least the demoncRATS at least understand unity and small gains. . .with a repub in the WH, the repus controlling Senate and House, the SCOTUS will not be staffed with ACLU types that surely will be if the RATS win the presidency.
When was the last time the repubs owned the WH, Senate and House? Been a heck of a long time. Give them a chance to get it right, at least once, if only to save the SCOTUS (that is what is truly at stake).
It’s funny to watch Freepers based on hunches and wishful thinking rationalize that Fiorina must have actually been great at HP ...!!
When back when she was fired there were threads where it was all I told you so
Point being
If you’re making money you don’t get fired by your board and typically a CEO has board loyalists to begin with which is part of why a board hires them or approves the hire or promotion
She turned HP upside down and was hard to deal with according to published accounts and lost money
Women are hard to work for generally speaking ...ask any woman.
Female personality makes for issues and drama
Cat ladies might understand me.....the vast bachelor brigade on FR here likely not
In my now 40 plus years in business as employee or owner I’ve dealt with scores of women who had authority over me...usually lenders or govt folks at codes or zoning
Two of them are great.....I’d work for them anyday....exceptional and both are dames
They love and adore men and are not intimidated or pushy....and ones a Yankee
The rest forget it and my wife says same
Homosexuals can be difficult to work for too....same reasons
Petty and drama and indecisive and validation needs
Fiorina is more impressive than me but her HP record is an F
no way we elect an failed executive who could not win a seat in public office.. Oh and we have not even discussed her positions on illegal immigrantion, cimmon core, bammycare , etc
